YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

However, an impact on the moon cannot be ruled out. Then in January of this year, the near approach of an asteroid perhaps ... when its shock wave shattered glass in buildings.

Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth.

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact ... of meteorite impacts are known to alter minerals within rocks, sometimes transforming them into translucent glass.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth ... through windows in their homes were injured by the shattering glass." Despite the Chelyabinsk wakeup call, we "still cannot detect ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...